Volume W0063.01

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains a 482-page typescript of Curtis R. Burke's Civil War journal. The journal includes daily entries from October 1862 to June 1865. Notable journal entries include a description of John Hunt Morgan's raid into Ohio in July 1863 and an account of conditions in the prison camps Camp Morton, located in Indianapolis, and Camp Douglas, located in Chicago. This bound typescript was edited by Pamela J. Bennett in 1971. According to information provided in an article by...